There is a lot going on here. One thing I agree with you: we just changed one thing, we shouldn't be changing something else right away.
However, my agreement with you stops here. You're looking at very skewed data to come to your conclusion that a higher rental floor creates higher profits and higher card prices. If that was the case, we should increase the floor to 10, 100, or even 1000.
That doesn't work. Maybe if Splinterlands cards were as necessary for living as a house, but that's not the case. Fact: even max level CL (reward and even some core set) commons and rares were left in the rental market at 0.1 for a long time. Of course some were getting rented because no matter how overprinted they are, there were always some players wanting to rent them. The problem is that there were many more cards in the market than players interested in renting them. Even many max epics and legendaries rented for around 1 DEC.
So, on the first few days of the change being implemented you are seeing an increase in rental profits. But that's because the majority of the cards were kicked out of the rental market because they were below the new floor. Once people set back their cards, at the new floor, all those cards will be at the floor. Those Djinn Biljkas at 10 DEC won't last. In fact, there will be even less people interested in renting the cards at the increased prices. Sure, the ones that are lucky enough to get their card rented in the middle of 100s, will be in profit right away, but that's like gambling on the lottery but the prize is a few cents.
There's only an issue in making back the listing fee because the listing fee was implemented, something that should have never happened. I understand it was to prevent the relisting bots but why not pay the fee only when you're relisting the card? We could easily have the first listing of each individual card for the season be free and it would still stop relisting bots.
Anyway, the floor only matters for the overprinted cards, which will leave Modern in about 3 months. It's still a terrible decision but I'm used to those and at least they delayed it for several months.
We are mostly in agreement but here's the thing - I set them at various levels... and they were ALL rented...
Once people realize L1-L3 are renting at 1 DEC... 1.1 DEC etc... They'll change their listings and the ROI will stabilize... but across the board L4 Legendary Rental Prices are going up for CL Rentals... It is working and no amount of opinion can refute evidence.
Normally, I would be on your side - Free Markets are key...
But when you throw in Listing Fees and Bots... You no longer have a FREE MARKET and even though I am very Libertarian... Once you add in Fees/Bots - the "Free Market" argument goes right out the window.
But it's not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of giving it time. I appreciate you trying to look at the data and drawing conclusions from them. What I'm telling you is that it is too early to do anything like that and I have no doubt that the cards there were getting listed for 1 or less, will be listed for 1 DEC and it will be even harder to rent them out. In fact, if more people decide to combine to rent at max level, because it became even more difficult to rent out those lower levels, it might even pull down max levels that were renting slightly above 1.
I mean I don't want listing fees or bots so just take those away. Anyway, regarding bots, I believe you did this proposal before the Wild pass. With that, the 1 bcx bots don't exist anymore (or if they do they are not profitable).